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OpenSolaris 2008.05 is available in Amazon public Grid

Following the success and interest in the May 5th launch of OpenSolaris 2008.05, we together with Amazon are happy to release the OpenSolaris 2008.05-based 32-bit AMI in a public grid. We also took this opportunity to include few changes/enhancement and bug fixes.

This means that capacity has been added for the OpenSolaris-based AMI so everyone can access it and launch as many instances as needed. The "Getting Started Guide" has been updated with instructions on how to rebundle a running OpenSolaris 2008.05 -based 32-bit AMI on Amazon EC2 which was not available previously due to technical issues. The rebundling process has been accelerated so it takes less time to rebundle. If you haven't been able to do so, try the rebundling process and let us know if you find any issues using the Guide. As we already know, OpenSolaris boots from a ZFS- based root file system, (project name "zfs boot") which is the reason why rebundling uses ZFS-based commands.

There is a lot of work in progress to deliver pre-packaged stacks, which includes a set of software stack, targeted towards a specific need. This will save time from installing and configuring the software and the user can be ready to start working on what they need to instead of configuring the individual software. Keep checking the "Open Solaris on EC2" web-page for availability of these images.

Once the list along with the AMI id's is available, check for what you need and if there is something missing which you'd like to be added, do let us know. AMI contribution and ideas from users are welcome and we can work together to get these ready for others to use. As OpenSolaris is a community based effort, we welcome the community contributions to make it easier for others.